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Handle RecyclerView updates

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Handle RecyclerView updates

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- [Instructor] At the time of this recording there is a recycler view bug where we lose the accessibility focus whenever we tell recycler view that the data set has changed. Let's take a look. Open the Cards example and focus on the Like button. - [TalkBack Voice] Like Jane does post button in list three items. Double tap to activate. - [Instructor] Now double tap to toggle the button. - [TalkBack Voice] Showing i- one. - [Instructor] As you can see, we lost the accessibility focus. The same happens to the favorite button. - [TalkBack Voice] Unfavor I Jane does post button. - [Instructor] There's a workaround to fix this problem. Let's go back to Android Studio and let's open our adapter. Go to main, java, adapters, CardListAdapter. Let's go to the constructor and let's tell that our adapter has stable IDs. We use the method setHasStableIds and set to true. So let's add another method here after the constructor. Hit Command + N on Mac and Alt + Insert on Windows and Linux and override…

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